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Earlier this year John McCain was forced to remove a YouTube video because it used the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, without permission. It appears he hasn't changed his stance on using music without copyright, as at the conclusion of the GOP convention on Thursday night, the campaign played the song “Barracuda” by Heart. Sarah Palin's high school nickname was reportedly "Sarah Barracuda." Whatever.

In the build up to Sen. John McCain's official acceptance of the Republican nomination for president, several supporters will speak on his behalf on Thursday, including Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, ...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night nearly matched the record-setting numbers of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Palin pulled in 37.2 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That's 55% higher than Day 3 of the DNC, when her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, and President Clinton took the stage (24 million).

This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton.

On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.

We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

While a debate rages over how honest Sarah Palin has been in stating her opposition to the infamous Bridge To Nowhere, another massive, widely-criticized transportation project is lingering in Alaska.

Mr. Johnson’s exalted status here shows that for all of Mr. McCain’s efforts to purge the influence of money in politics, the big donors still wielded sizable influence over this convention, getting singular access to the campaign and shaping the endless chain of parties and events outside the convention hall.

Despite persistent attacks against Obama over "elitism," one need only look at a few things, such as the number of houses (too many for him to recall) McCain owns, the multi-million dollar empire that Cindy McCain oversees, and the fact that Barack Obama was brought up by a single mother, to know who is really elite.

Organizers conceived of this convention as a means to inspire, but some African American Republicans have found the Xcel Energy Center depressing this week. Everywhere they look, they see evidence of what they consider one of their party's biggest shortcomings.

As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges on Thursday in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — A Bridgeville woman is facing criminal charges after she was allegedly seen in Rehoboth Beach tearing a banner honoring military personnel from Delaware killed in Iraq and Vietnam.

According to court records, 21-year-old Mytia Dorman is charged with criminal mischief and criminal impersonation.

Court records said Rehoboth Beach police received a call that a woman in a red Obama T-shirt was trying to climb a pole near the Rehoboth bandstand that holds two of the Hometown Heroes banners about 12:45 a.m. Monday. When an officer arrived, Dorman allegedly said the date that a Marine corporal was killed was incorrect on the banner, “so she was tearing it down.”

Court records also allege Dorman gave a false name to the officer.

When conservatives and others question the absence of any executive experience of Barack Obama and why it is that a man who has spent just over a hundred days as a United States Senator is so close to the presidency, we are to conclude those doubters are racists.

Arizona voters have chosen their top candidates to run for open House of Representatives seats in November.

Below is the text of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention:

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...

I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.

John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin puts his campaign firmly on track toward a hard-edged drive to mobilize the GOP's conservative base, threatening to erase what remains of his centrist maverick image and his appeal to moderate and independent voters.

I expected a good speech, and I expected to blog that it didn't make much of a difference: She's still not qualified for the job. But I am surprised by Palin and her team of speechwriters, with whom she has been sequestered since Friday.

I expected more about what she and John McCain would do for the country, not all these immature cheap shots at Obama.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."

Gotta watch those open mikes, guys.

Here's an interesting video. Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, dishes on what she really thinks of Sarah Palin in an open mike, with fellow conservatives Mike Murphy and Chuck Todd. This shows what GOP pundits really think of the GOP's VP candidate.

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Alaska? Alaska? Alaska? Alaska. Ala-- Come on, man. I don't even know if there's any black people in Alaska. What in the [beep]? ALASKA? You're bugging the [beep] out. Sarah Palin, you ain't ready to be vice president. Alaska Mother[beep]er? What is the reality in Alas--? There's not even no crackheads in Alaska! There's not even no black people. There's not even no like -- crime or, uh, uh like -- Foreign policies, you all may be versed on foreign -- foreign policies. You all need to get versed on black policies and youth policies. We the future. John, you're bugging the [beep] out, man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thmueS0ngAs